Electrostatics and High Voltage Links(amasci.com)

31 points by ludicrousdispla 6 months ago | 3 comments

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012)(greenend.org.uk)

29 points by ibobev 24 days ago | 31 comments

A personal essay tracing the origin of the quote "the only intuitive interface is the nipple" through 1990s Usenet posts attributed to Bruce Ediger and others.

Accidentally Load Bearing(jefftk.com)

386 points by jamessun 3 years ago | 165 comments

Jeff Kaufman blog post arguing that besides a thing's original purpose, you must check whether it has become accidentally load bearing, using a bathroom stud example.

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more(utcc.utoronto.ca)

157 points by ingve 3 years ago | 126 comments

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature(utcc.utoronto.ca)

61 points by ingve 1 year ago | 38 comments

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals(utcc.utoronto.ca)

97 points by zdw 1 year ago | 58 comments

3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public(minnesotareformer.com)

334 points by Jimmc414 2 years ago | 166 comments

Minnesota Reformer investigative article reporting that internal 3M documents show the company knew for decades its PFAS chemicals were harmful but concealed it.

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods(plasticlist.org)

588 points by jeff18 1 year ago | 179 comments

The PlasticList report describing a project that tested 100 everyday Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals such as endocrine disruptors, with methodology and results.

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D(arstechnica.com)

400 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 180 comments

Ars Technica article on a Senate report finding major drug companies spend more on executive pay and shareholder payouts than on R&D, citing patent thickets.

3M executives convinced a scientist forever chemicals in human blood were safe(propublica.org)

336 points by whereistimbo 2 years ago | 190 comments

ProPublica investigation into how 3M executives persuaded a company scientist that the PFAS forever chemicals she found in human blood were safe.

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades(debugbear.com)

338 points by jgx0 21 days ago | 229 comments

A DebugBear blog post examining the recent redesign of example.com, the IANA-reserved documentation domain, and the history of its visual appearance over 20+ years.

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO(danluu.com)

326 points by greggyb 2 years ago | 617 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing Steve Ballmer was an underrated Microsoft CEO whose long-term bets and groundwork set up Satya Nadella's later success.